Dreamcatcher-cat

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

[odalismus]

I really can't stand leftist hand-wringing about people acknowledging "the Third Reich also had its good sides." You have to be really stupid to believe that anything in this world is ALL good or ALL bad. And admitting that doesn't even have to necessarily mean downplaying bad parts.

OBJECTIVELY, the Third Reich was an economic miracle and pulled Germany out of a severe economic crisis. Unemployment dropped dramatically. Public health programs like vaccinations, tuberculosis screenings, anti-smoking campaigns, and encouragement of physical activity were put into place. The idea that leisure activities should be accessible to everyone regardless of class. The development of the Autobahn and the vision of a people's car that would make travel more affordable for the average family. Construction of affordable housing. Loans for newlyweds. Youth programs.

It does history a disservice to treat the Nazis like a unique, cartoonish pure evil that did nothing but bad things. That's not true of anyone. The more people stick their fingers in their ears about it, the likelier it is that one day people will realize the truth and understand that they have been lied to and manipulated.

[riflebrass]

It's not just a disservice to the past, but also a danger to the future. This idea that Germany voted the nazis into power because they hated the jews and for no other reasons completely ignores the economic ruin Germany was under after WWI and the unity and hope the nazis offered.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[polarity-disturbed]

Could you imagine making your own movie, making like 20 million dollars, and then going “awesome, now to install a DVD duplicating machine in my house and personally burn copies by hand like a medieval monk preserving sacred texts”

Like I need people to understand the mental image here of a multimillionaire internet creator personally overseeing DVD production in his own house like he’s running an underground bootleg operation out of a basement in 2007.

It’s weirdly charming because there’s something very “old internet” about it, this energy of “I made a thing, and now I will physically hand it to people myself like an artisan at a craft fair.”

The man really said: “The future of cinema is me standing next to a humming disc burner at 2am”

And like... I can't help but believe he's onto something

[polarity-disturbed]

A) Yes, he does seem to have gotten these specifically for Iron Lung.

B) DVD and CD burners are not devices that exist exclusively for bootlegging. You can go buy one yourself right now. If you make a movie, an album, a game, you are entirely free to burn copies and distribute them.

When I say "I can't help but believe he's onto something," that's what I'm talking about.

Not that everyone should suddenly start mass-producing DVDs in their basement.

I mean the underlying idea.

That we've become so accustomed to everything existing at the mercy of platforms, storefronts, algorithms, licensing agreements, and corporate infrastructure that we've almost forgotten creators can just... put things out into the world themselves.

There is something appealing about physical media as an act of ownership and preservation.

And I think we've collectively become a little too comfortable treating the continued existence of creative work as something that should be outsourced to social media platforms and streaming services.

There's value in remembering that if you make something, you can put it on a physical object and hand it directly to another human being.

Just a thing that came from your mind, made with your hands, existing in the world because you decided it should.

I think we should be doing more of that.

Even if you're not a fan of Markiplier, even if you have absolutely zero interest in Iron Lung, I think there's something genuinely inspiring about what he's doing here.

The willingness to look at the modern content ecosystem and go, "No, actually, I'd like to put this thing on a physical object and hand it directly to people."

That creative work can exist as a thing in the world, sitting on a shelf, surviving platform changes, algorithm shifts, licensing disputes, and whatever fresh catastrophe the internet invents next week.

Maybe it's the preservationist bug in my brain.

Maybe I'm just old enough to find comfort in media that continues existing after somebody forgets to renew a contract.

But regardless of if you're a fan of Iron Lung or not, I think that's an idea worth being inspired by.

It's certainly inspired me.

[kneelbeforeyourdogbabylon]

German trailer for The Thing (1982).

[gobusto]

[hydrachea]

> turns on my computer

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

> disables a new AI fea

[catchymemes]

blue sunset on Mars is a real phenomenon caused by the way Martian dust scatters sunlight.

Unlike Earth, where sunsets are red and orange due to the scattering of shorter blue wavelengths by our atmosphere, Mars has an extremely fine dust that scatters blue light more efficiently near the Sun.

So during sunset on Mars, the sky turns reddish-brown while the area around the Sun glows a soft blue. It’s the opposite of what we experience on Earth.

NASA’s rovers have captured this eerie sight

[pastel-prouvaire-deactivated201]

PSA: tumblr user littlefuckinmonster is stealing human bones from cemeteries in Louisiana. Please don’t let them get away with this and spread the word/signal boost!

[wdapteo]

this post is officially a decade old now

[mutantrenegade]

For anyone who wasnt around when this happened, this was real. Littlefuckinmonster was actually stealing bones from cemeteries. She is the bone stealing witch. She was specifically stealing bones from poor people. She was arrested for it.

[proustianrevelry]

Not only did the user in question get arrested, but 4 months later, the state legislature passed the Louisiana Human Remains Protection and Control Act, created specifically because people heard about this case and realized there weren’t any clear laws about who has what right to own human remains and who enforces those rights.

[arch-user]

I actually thought this was a joke until i scrolled down. holy shit i really shouldn’t have laughed.

[spookberry]

lowkey kinda hate how all the pride flags are just stripes, can we get some shapes up in here pls

[schnuffel-danny]

OK bisexual (czech)

[spookberry]

Hell yeah 🤙

[the-ghost-king]

Biczechual

[zoe-the-astromaniac]

What in the London Thumakda–

This is how Vijaylakshmi would wear Rani ka kurta

[pastelroll]

Ethnic motif print?!??!?!!lmao

[aidashakur]

[dreamcatcher-cat]

I'm reading this book about poisons, and it is from a European perspective and the first poison is arsenic. The king of poisons , should be fun, right? Wrong.

I'm surprised all of Europe is not dead from arsenic poisoning. It was in EVERYTHING, from wallpapers to makeup, medicines, food. At one point it was even used for embalming. I've never been more confounded and at the same time had more trust in humanity's cockroach ability to survive anything.

[dreamcatcher-cat]

Men (and some women, but predominantly men) from the Styria region of Austria used to take arsenic willingly, because, in their words, it made them physically stronger and attractive.

[rhysaka]

Wear armour? No thanks, the goddess went to war naked.

[dreamcatcher-cat]

I'm reading this book about poisons, and it is from a European perspective and the first poison is arsenic. The king of poisons , should be fun, right? Wrong.

I'm surprised all of Europe is not dead from arsenic poisoning. It was in EVERYTHING, from wallpapers to makeup, medicines, food. At one point it was even used for embalming. I've never been more confounded and at the same time had more trust in humanity's cockroach ability to survive anything.

[eleanorsdeath]

i love photography i love art i love losing myself in books and going to exhibitions and the cinema and walking through cities and i love architecture and learning about history and no one will ever take that away from me

[inbabylontheywept]

i dont know why anyone else misses analog board games, but to me, it's because physical parts let me cheat. there's no moving pieces around when someone isnt looking in a chess app, no sneaking bonus pieces out of the graveyard in checkers, no double drawing cards in go fish.

i spent years developing those skills as a Professional Little Brother. what am i supposed to do now, go back to college? learn how to play games the right way? i mean, who gives a shit? the fun part was never the game, it was the Getting Away With It. or, you know, for the rest of my family, Catching The Bastard. now that was entertainment.

[inbabylontheywept]

@lizardho: wait a minute. babs. how many cards are in your han-

me: already halfway over the couch, planning my escape route through the back yard

[lizardho]

You were always so squirmy it made you hard to catch. This is how knife tag happened.

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

"Knife tag" is such an evocative turn of phrase, and a game to which I would love to know the details*

[inbabylontheywept]

When I was teenie tiny, Liz had a toy shark that I feared more than death. This meant that under sibling law, she was required to chase me with it. Frequently. Failing to do so would have invalidated her Professional Big Sister license.

One time she was chasing me it and I asked her very nicely to stop, and she did not which left me no choice but to grab a knife and repeat my request.

I know this may sound like an extreme reaction. But there really was no other rational choice. What was I supposed to do, ask nicely a second time? Like a goddamn hippy? No. Knife time.

Unfortunately I was bluffing and Liz called my bluff by grabbing a knife of her own. Which meant I was then getting chased with a shark AND a large steak knife. I started off continuing to be more scared of the shark than the knife, but that was a mistake because Liz actually made a lunge for me with the knife (I think she mixed up her shark hand/knife hand?) and managed to lightly stab our new couch. Which Liz then had to explain to our mom. I think the conversation was something like "Mom, the good news is that I missed, and the bad news is that I tried, and the worst news is that I got the couch instead.”

My mom handled it very well. My survival to adulthood hinged entirely on this weird one weird exploit in human psychology where confusing someone enough temporarily turns off their ability to be angry.

Incredibly that wasn't even our worst dumb sibling chase incident. The worst happened when I was chasing her through the house, and she ducked into our freshly mopped kitchen. She managed to cool girl skate over the puddles and make it to the other side of the room, which led to me trying to cool boy skate in her footsteps. This failed horribly, and instead resulted in me sailing headfirst into the dishwasher.

The good news was that I was able to absorb the entire blow with my left eyebrow, which I wasn't using very much anyway. The bad news was that I actually cut most that eyebrow off as a sort of fuzzy flap, which was disgusting, not to mention painful. Fortunately, with my dad being a doctor, he was able to glue most of it back on, albeit slightly crooked, such that I spent the next two years with a Resting Confused Face. Like so.

(I know this probably sounds inconvenient to you, but those were ages 6-7, so I was probably going to be confused all the time anyway. If anything, this helped me conserve precious eyebrow calories, which I was then able to use for more important tasks, such as spitting, or lurking near my dad so that when he left his Dave Barry books lying around I could swoop in and learn bad words from them. I learned most of my bad words that way.)

[inbabylontheywept]

My mother has informed me that the crooked eyebrow was also due to my squirminess. Live by the squirm, die by the squirm.

[agrippina-siderea]

Your dad was a doctor and it didn't occur to him to take you to THE EMERGENCY ROOM?!

[inbabylontheywept]

Why wouldn't he? He had the kit at home, he'd spent years working in the ER himself, and the wait times were routinely 6+ hours. ER was everyone's last resort. Anytime anyone from our ward got a cut, they'd show up at our door first, seeing if Dr. Dad had a free moment to put them back together. Which he did free of charge.

I am very proud of him for that, and it's the kind of public usefulness I aspire to have, but it also meant that once or twice a month I opened the door expecting the mailman and instead getting a neighbor experiencing Monty Python levels of bleeding. Which I do not think is what gave me an anxiety disorder, but it also could not possibly have helped.

[rou-junesong]

very specific[?] compliment, but you write in the same sort of cadence my favourite authors as a kid did.

[inbabylontheywept]

I'll point out that the princess bride and H2G2 are presented as spoken stories. The princess bride's top level story is about a sick kid listening to his grandpa weave a fairy tale. H2G2 was, I believe, originally written for radio plays. Primarily auditory.

I started telling stories verbally before writing them down. Hell, I really got into stories at all because my dad would read Patrick McManus to me as a kid, which was my radio play. And he could read those stories beautifully because his dad did the same.

(Anyway, thank you! This was just me going, ah, I know where this comes from. I know the link here. I loved those authors too.)

[pukicho]

Some tumblr users are evil woke. They use the power of good for evil.

[zeherili-ankhein]

The ones that say misandrist shit in the name of feminism definitely are yeah

[the-punforgiven]

god I wish I had a pair of menacing black gauntlets with really sharp fingertip claws I bet it feels good as fuck to have your hands resting palm-down on a surface and then scratch some deep fucking gashes into it as you clench your hand a little closer to a fist when your evil minion delivers some bad news to you

[the-punforgiven]

ohhh fuck yeah, you understand